In Memory

Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Butterfly project!

1500000 innocent children perished in the Holocaust. In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houstonis collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 600,000 butterflies. 1.5 million children translated into 1.5 million butterflies. If you wonder why butterflies...the project is based on this poem written by Pavel Friedman in June 1942...